Longmont woman, 65, sentenced to prison in bank robbery, escape cases

LONGMONT -- A Boulder District judge sentenced a 65-year-old Longmont woman on Tuesday to two years in prison for escaping from a jail work release sentence and felony theft from a bank.

Datha Nation had nearly completed a jail and work release sentence in January for a felony theft conviction in the robbery of a Longmont bank in June 2011 when she did not return to the Boulder County Jail after a day out to search for work.

She was sentenced to two years in the robbery since she did not successfully complete her original sentence and was given a consecutive one-year term for the escape.

After Nation failed to return to the jail in January as scheduled, her photo was included in newspaper coverage of the escape and she was recognized at a bus stop in Boulder. She told a Boulder police officer who approached her that she was Nation's twin.

Nation was serving a work release sentence after pleading guilty to felony theft from the Wells Fargo Bank in the Safeway store on Ken Pratt Boulevard. In that case she reportedly threatened to give the clerk AIDS if she did not hand over money. Nation reportedly made two subsequent robbery attempts at the same bank but was recognized by staff. She was arrested outside the bank after the second attempt.

She told the Times-Call that job loss and the inability to find new work led her to robbery.

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